Employee recognition ideas: Uh, start by caring

"I don't have time to recognize my employees! Don't we do that at raise season or something? Eff it, let's buy a software program!"

There are roughly 2,400 Google searches per month for 'employee recognition ideas.' That's really not that many when you consider how many people are managers/bosses in the world, and the low volume shouldn't be too surprising. In this book I'm reading, The Carrot Principle, they discuss one particular set of employee recognition ideas. Let me set this …